A close reading of Trump’s State of the Union address did not clarify the direction he intends to take, but did reveal the president’s genuine deliberation regarding the next phase.
I knew that hating him would do nothing but hurt us both.
The context Israel too often overlooks is the cultural gap separating it from its Western partners. Acknowledging this gap does not mean accepting every European position, but it is a necessary step.
Bennett asks us to support him once again to implement better leadership, but when he had the chance, he did nothing substantial.
With already strained Jewish unity, a recent Knesset vote sends a message that Israel is prepared to legislate one stream of Judaism’s authority over a site that carries meaning for all.
Is there still time for Jewish joy in a world of hostages and war, amid dilemmas around the war’s justness, recognition of Palestinian suffering, and the desire to see Hamas dismantled? At what cost?
There will be no real disarmament of Hamas as long as Israel occupies and controls Gaza.
It has been dubbed the Bored of Peace because of Trump’s well-known short attention span (except for revenge and self-enrichment) and tendency to flit from one project to the next.
In legitimizing high-brow and low-brow antisemitism, he strengthened the ideological foundation triggering today’s multi-dimensional Jew-hating storm, uniting anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
The way Jeffrey Epstein's crimes are being exploited today fits into a growing conspiratorial and antisemitic drift.
The fix will only come when we move to measuring outputs, cancel the revolving door of the courts, and return deterrence to center stage.
